Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-18

drink from getting one. Atlanta druggists are selling diluted alcohol as beverage.
 Emigrants from Europe coming to this couRtry in unusually large numbers this spring. The steamship companies find them selves unable to meet the requirements of the steerage traffic.
 A recently enacted Ohio law aims to do F'the fair thing.'' It says that the husband must support himself, his wife and his minor children out of his property or by his labor. If he is unable to do so the wife must assist him so far as she is able.
 A high license bill has been reported to the Massachusetts house of representative It sets the fee for frst-class licenses Gall liquors to be drunk on the premises) $1 ,0OO; second (rnalt liquors, cider and light wines) and third (malt liquors and cider), $25O; fourth Gall liquors not to be drunk on the premises), $500; fifth (malt liquors, cider and light wines not to be drunk on the prem ises), s15O-but brewers to pay $4e0; sixth class (druggists), $1.
 It has become very plain that long trains 
 from the locomotive. For the last two weeks a train heated by steam has been running between St. Albans and White River Junc- ton, Vermont, the round trip covering 242 miles. The working of tine system in use on this train has been inspected by the Vermont railroad commissioners and many practical railroad men, and all of these, as we'll as the officers of the road, are satisfied that the problem has been solved. In this system heat is furnished by steam that would other wise be wasted.
 In the eight months beginning July 1886, there were 10S strikes and Il loekouts in Philadelphia. Of the strikes, 19 were successful, were reported settled satisfac- torily, 21 were compromised, and 60 were failures; of the Il lockouts by employers, were successful, while were compromised and are pending. The number of hands thrown out of work by these various trou- bles was IS, 123, and the direct loss in wages was $1 ,221 ,750, while in twenty-two instances none of the employees who struck recovered their old places, and in about fifty cases only a portion of them. This is not very good showing for strikes.
 Caesar Tayler, the new colored prophet who has arisen in the South has some rather definite ideas concerning he'll. Says he: This internal fire compares with the Bible both as to location and description. Is it hell9 Drop into it and see It can be mathemat- ically proven that the temperature of the earth's crust at depth of between nifty and ssventy-fiys miles would melt iron. After close figuring estimate the solid crust to be nearly fifty-two miles thick. The main di- ameter of the earth being 7,926 miles, 52 from each hend-1G4-wculd leave 7,S22 miles as diameter, the square of which multiplied by three-14, 159-gives the spherical surface measure, 192, ,1S2, 6S4 square miles, to find the solid contents of which we multiply by l one-third the radius of the sphere, which if 25O, ,542 093, ,S58 cubic miles of space for the 1 molten lake of hell.
 The whisky pool has solved problem which has been puzzling the authorities oi
 Iowa for long time by "leasing the capac l ity'' of the International distillery at De,
 Moines at the rate of $sO,0OO per annum l This is the establishment which has figured il